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In this week’s note, we review the extreme pricing levels the investment grade corporate bond market has reached.

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Through Friday, exactly 1,400 companies had reported their Q4 2017 EPS numbers this earnings season. The average one-day price change in reaction to these earnings reports has been a gain of 0.32%.

Bespoke keeps close tabs on all earnings-related news for companies that are publicly traded on US exchanges. We have a full searchable database of all earnings reports going back to 2001 that’s available to subscribers. You can access it here if you’re interested.

Below is a list of the 40 stocks that have reacted the most positively to their earnings reports so far this season (since 1/8). Fossil (FOSL) ranks first with an unbelievable one-day move of +87.72%. With a one-day gain of 47.58% in response to its 2/6 earnings report, Snap (SNAP) ranks second, followed by QuinStreet (QNST), Liquidity Services (LQDT), and Virtu Financial (VIRT).

The only two S&P 500 stocks in the top 40 are GWW and UAA.

Below is a list of the 40 stocks that have had the worst one-day price reaction to earnings this season. M/A-COM (MTSI) ranks worst with a one-day decline of 36.73%, followed by iRobot (IRBT) with a drop of 32.08%. RFP, ACET, and NGVC round out the worst five. Expedia (EXPE) has been the worst performing S&P 500 stock with a one-day drop of 15.47% on 2/9. Other notables on the list of losers include Canada Goose (GOOS), YRCW, Arista Networks (ANET), and Acuity Brands (AYI).

Below we narrow the list down to just S&P 500 stocks. These are the 30 S&P 500 stocks that have had the best one-day price reactions to earnings this season. Notables include eBay (EBAY), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), Viacom (VIAB), and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Below are the 30 biggest losers on earnings this season in the S&P 500. United Continental (UAL), Texas Instruments (TXN), PayPal (PYPL), UPS, and Hershey (HSY) are a few notables. Ironically, eBay was one of the top performers on earnings this season, while its darling spin-off PayPal was one of the worst.

Want to find the biggest winners and losers during earnings season at any time? You can find them using our Earnings Screener. Below is an example of how you would search for a list of the biggest winners since a certain date. Try running the screen yourself to see how it works!

While we don’t ever suggest that investors should base their trading solely on the calendar, there is evidence that the market and many stocks do indeed follow seasonal patterns. This makes our S&P 500 Stock Seasonality report a useful addition to every investor’s toolbox. Using the last ten years worth of price data, our Stock Seasonality report looks at the average returns for the S&P 500, its eleven sectors, and its 500 individual stocks. In the report, we highlight the five stocks in each sector that have historically been the best and worst performers over the next two weeks. For each stock, we also include information such as average returns, the percent of time each stock or sector is positive/outperforms the S&P 500, and its historical performance over the next two weeks for each of the last ten years. The Stock Seasonality report is published on a weekly basis on Mondays, and it is available to all Bespoke Premium and Bespoke Institutional subscribers.

This week’s stock that we have chosen to highlight is salesforce.com (CRM). CRM typically reports Q4 earnings late in the month of February, and this year is scheduled to report after the close on 2/28. Historically speaking, investors have liked what they have seen in the report. As shown in our Earnings Screener, the stock has gapped up following its Q4 report in eight of the last ten years, and in many cases by double-digit percentages. Overall, in the two-week period from the close on 2/20 through the close on 3/6, CRM has seen a median gain of 6.9% with gains in all but one year. That one year where the stock declined was in 2011, but it wasn’t the earnings that dinged the stock back then, because on its earnings reaction day, CRM rallied close to 5%.

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Welcome to Bespoke Brunch Reads — a linkfest of the favorite things we read over the past week. The links are mostly market related, but there are some other interesting subjects covered as well. We hope you enjoy the food for thought as a supplement to the research we provide you during the week.

Economic Musings

Why Debt is both Interesting and Important by Toby Nangle (Principles And Interest)

Musing on the macroeconomics of household debt; what it is, what it isn’t, why it’s important, and why it’s sometimes talked about in the wrong way. [Link]

A custom mining rig in a New York City borough was using so much power and creating so much background radio frequency that it interfered with cell phone frequencies, causing FCC intervention. [Link; auto-playing video]

Coinbase is erratically overcharging some users and emptying their bank accounts by Adrianne Jeffries (The Verge)

In a technical error, Coinbase began emptying bank accounts of some customers to the pointof incurring overdraft fees. [Link]

Next-Generation Crypto-Ledgers Take the Block Out of Blockchain by Olga Kharif (Bloomberg)

Legally painted graffiti on the walls of dilapidated warehouses were covered with white paint in preparation for sales to developers. The result is a landmark judgement in favor of artists whose work was destroyed by the owner of the property. [Link; soft paywall]

Fed Findings

Here’s How New Fed Chief Powell Is Changing Things Up by Christopher Condon (Bloomberg)

In an effort to flatten the hierarchical institutional design of the FOMC, Chair Powell is working to get in closer contact with staff economists and researchers. [Link; auto-playing video]

Finance Miscellanea

Churches Are Still Filing Bankruptcy by Pamela Foohey (Credit Slips)

While consumer bankruptcies are starting to even out, churches are still in relatively dire financial straits as evidenced by the still-high bankruptcy filings they make. [Link]

The Big Risk in China Isn’t Stocks by Nisha Gopalan (Bloomberg)

With lots of eyes on the size of Chinese credit markets, bank lending, and equity markets, the real risks in the country may be more specific to the real estate market. [Link]

A culprit for financial site glitches: you and your apps by Ross Kerber (Yahoo!/Reuters)

During the height of the equity market pullback last week, retail investors flooded brokerage website to the point they crashed, a possible sign of what made the difference in lower prices: investor behavior. [Link]

After falling behind Democrats by a historic margin, Republicans have come storming back in the wake of tax reform passage. [Link]

Language

Hockey language divergence between North Korea and South Korea by Victor Mair (Language Log)

In order to play together in the PeoyongChang Olympics, North and South Korean hockey players needed remedial language classes. [Link]

Moore’s Law

Science and research policy at the end of Moore’s law by Hassan N. Khan, David A. Hounshell and Erica R. H. Fuchs (Nature)

The authors argue that while Moore’s Law is likely to break down as the industry fractures into distinct research paths, progress is likely to continue along discrete paths; possible solutions include public funding of more general research and leadership from outside private industry. [Link]

Tech Problems

Too Much Power to the People? A Food Safety Site Tests the Limits by Kevin Roose (NYT)

The internet has unleashed consumers’ voices, but there are drawbacks: false reports, anonymous submissions, and fearmongering are all significant issues. [Link; soft paywall]

America’s Real Digital Divide by Naomi Schaefer Riley (NYT)

Excessive time in front of screens has widely reported drawbacks, and it turns out that children from lower income families are even more exposed to the perils of a digital babysitter. [Link; soft paywall]

Hollywood

The ‘Black Panther’ Movie Deal That Didn’t Get Made by Ben Fritz (WSJ)

Sony’s misguided purchase of rights to Spiderman but intentional pass on the rest of the Marvel universe looks like one of the worst decisions in the history of the movies. [Link; paywall]

Marky-Mark’s entourage for a round: a personal chef with eight daily meals in coolers, a playing partner (CAA agent Rob light), and three caddies. One caddy handles clubs and raking, one shot selection, and a third is there simply to run sprints with Wahlberg between shots. [Link]

Hoops

Sources: College hoops corruption case poised to take down Hall of Fame coaches, top programs, lottery picks by Pete Thamel (Yahoo!)

Five months ago a federal probe led to 10 arrests of college basketball coaches and other hangers-on. Sources report that the next round (featuring 4000 calls wire tapped as well as thousands of documents and bank records) could splash across 50 programs. [Link; auto-playing video]

St. John’s Is On The Most Unlikely Hot Streak In College Basketball History by Neil Paine (538)

Starting 10-2, losing 11 straight, and then wins over number 4 Duke, number 1 Villanova, and a solid Marquette squad, has meant the biggest turnaround in college basketball history. [Link]

After hoppy craft beers saw a surge in popularity, hops prices exploded and production surged, but tastes have since started to shift again, leading to a bust. [Link; paywall]

Harassment

Why I don’t use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website by Julia Enthoven (Kapwing)

A woman using her picture or the picture of another woman saw a dramatic difference in harassment and rude or profane comments from users seeking tech support on her company’s website. Using a male picture or that of the firm’s logo, the harassment stopped. [Link]

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Here’s a cool table from this week’s Bespoke Report. A little over a week ago, the S&P 500 closed down 10.1% from its all-time record high only nine trading days earlier. That confirmed the first official correction for the index in what seemed like forever. Just like that, though, equities have come roaring back and have now closed higher for six straight trading days heading into this weekend. With that streak, we wondered if the S&P 500 had ever seen a similar six-day winning streak from the closing low of a 10% correction. Looking back at prior corrections, we were surprised to see that there have actually been eight prior periods where the S&P 500 saw a similar streak from a closing low. In this week’s Bespoke Report, we examined each of these periods to see how the S&P 500 performed going forward after the initial six-day gain off of the low.

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Each weekend as part of our Bespoke Premium and Institutional research service, clients receive our S&P 500 Quick-View Chart Book, which includes one-year price charts of every stock in the S&P 500. You can literally scan through this report in a matter of minutes or hours, but either way, you will come out ahead knowing which stocks, or groups of stocks, are leading and lagging the market. The report is a great resource for both traders and investors alike. Below we show the front page of this week’s report which contains price charts of the major averages and ten major sectors.

Because of the big decline off the January highs, even though most US equities surged this week, there weren’t a whole lot of 52-week highs or lows. What you will see throughout the chart book, however, is a bunch of v-looking formations. Hopefully, they don’t turn in to Ws! Once sector that has seen little in the way of a bounce off the lows is Energy. On a closing basis, the sector is up less than 2% from its recent low.